Anyone who has even a passing familiarity with the practice of workers' compensation is aware that lump sum settlements are almost always, strictly voluntary. The act does still offer a vehicle for a ...

The claimant’s bar should return to a mind set where indemnity and medical are negotiated separately and each component should be justified with actual exposure values, and not arbitrary figures.

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Worker’s compensation is a complex system that aims to protect employees who are injured or become ill on the job. In the United States, worker’s compensation is governed by state law, where each ...

A pizza delivery guy who gets punched in the mouth during a robbery. A UPS driver who is hit in the face with falling boxes. A farmer kicked by a horse. An amusement park worker playing Spiderman who ...

In Griffin v. Absolute Fire Control, 376 N.C. 727, 2021-NSC-9, the Supreme Court of North Carolina affirmed, per curiam, the Court of Appeals’ decision that Plaintiff’s post-accident employment with ...

In the coronavirus pandemic that sent millions of employees home to begin new work routines, reports of occupational injuries that were expected failed to materialize. Remote workers still have lower ...

Editor's note: Find the latest long COVID news and guidance in Medscape's Long COVID Resource Center. Long COVID cases now account for 6% of all workers' compensation claims, according to a new study ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

LANSING — A recent Michigan Supreme Court ruling could make it easier for people to qualify for workers' compensation benefits for pre-existing mental disabilities if their job aggravates or ...